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When tackling the topic of "religious freedom" what are policy-makers and academics trying to define? Is religious freedom a universally defined set of liberal human rights from a secular state, or is religious freedom also seen in religious states? The Politics of Religious Freedom goes into the depths of complexity that is "religious freedom." The book explores what religious freedom is in a variety of settings: South Asia, North Africa, Middle East, Europe, the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Brazil. This book is a collection of blog posts and essays submitted to the Immanent Frame website (hosted by the Social Science Research Council) dedicated to interdisciplinary discussion on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. Overall, this collection of blog posts and the larger Immanent Frame website, are part of the Politics of Religious Freedom research project, a three-year study funded by the Henry R. LuceFoundation. In beginning the research for this project it became clear the project extended beyond the dialogue of the four editors and even setting the discourse of "what is religion?" needed to be expanded, let alone trying to define religious freedom in an overarching, universal approach. The book is divided into four sections: religion, history, law/politics, and freedom. The variety of essays forces the reader to examine religion and

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